Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...furious winds spiraling toward Carol's center piled up the water in a wave-topped mound that swept with the hurricane toward the helpless coast. When it finally hit, the wind-driven water had nowhere to go. Dammed up by wind pressure, it submerged the breakwaters, sandspits and islands, covering them deeply enough to allow the great waves to ride into harbors and bays...
...Little League world series went to a band of bubblegum blowers from Schenectady, N.Y., who outlasted Colton, Calif, in the finals 7-5. Star of the game: Billy Masucci, twelve-year-old Schenectady pitcher, who smashed a two-run homer in the first inning, maintained his poise on the mound after beaning Colton's Harley Chapman (whose hand he shook in apology-see cut), struck out nine and allowed only four hits...
Surprisingly, the Yankee youngsters are carrying the team. While old reliables such as Lopat and Reynolds have been taking their lumps on the pitching mound, Bob Grim, Eddie Ford, Harry Byrd, Tom Morgan and Jim McDonald have turned in 50 victories among them. Mantle, Noren and Skowron are living up to advance billing and outhitting such veterans as Woodling and Collins. Now, in the stretch sprint, the Yankees will face teams that have been their cousins all season. If they take up their old, winning ways, professional Yankee haters will begin to worry that Casey Stengel will take his sixth...
...same lineup should start against Jack Barry's powerful Holy Cross squad on Saturday, and first baseman-turned-pitcher John Mahar is scheduled to open on the mound. The undefeated Crusaders will start Ron Perry, who has won five of the Crusaders' ten games this season...
...Nelson dropped after a hard run. Jim Rahal flow out, but Bob German, playing his first varsity game at second base after being promoted from the Jayvees two days ago, dropped a double in front of Nelson. MacDonald scored, and when pitcher Priere walked with the ball towards the mound, German broke for third. He kept on to score when the surprised Huskie threw the ball past third...